9/11 Museum Workshop Tour

The 9/11 Museum Workshop Tour is the perfect primer before your visit to the 9/11 Memorial at Ground Zero.

The interactive “hands-on” exhibition takes 90 minutes and is centered around the award-winning photographs of the FDNY's Gary Marlon Suson, the official photographer at Ground Zero and the only permitted photographer during the nine-month dig for the missing people at Ground Zero.

The collection focuses less on the actual day of 9/11 and more on the 9-month dig when cameras were not permitted. The BOSE Audio tour gives you detailed narration behind each image and artifact, complete with real sound effects. The result is a five-star rated tour that is unmatched in helping you experience what it was like to be there alongside New York’s firefighters during the cold winter months in 2001 as they searched for the missing.

On display is the Frozen Clock, the Today is September 11 calendar page, the Genesis 11: Tower of Babylon charred bible page, and the largest remaining piece of World Trade Center window glass in existence. Guests are also allowed to pick up and hold a small piece of airplane fuselage.

This child-friendly, audio-guided tour allows you to understand the aftermath of 9/11, and the painstaking search for those lost in the attacks. Visitors can see and handle artifacts from the dig site, such as rare window glass and religious symbols burned from World Trade Center steel beams for 9/11 family members. This unique museum has donated extensively to charities for 16 years.